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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12279, 25 May 1903, Page 6

In her country home at Tarrytowu Miss Helen Gould has one of the most bcautifu collections of plants in the United State?. Her father was passionately fond of flowers, and spent a small fortune on plants and greenhouses. Upwards of twenty years ago as purchased a singularly rare plant in Belginm. It belonged to the night-blooming cactus family. It was about a foot high when M bought it. At the present time. ~v!tA thick, prickly stems it covers twenty- * square feet of ground, requiring a very la r _ box to hold it. This cactus grew for twenty years before it produced a single flower. - length it bloomed on a Monday, and contm - ed to flower every night during a week. - night there were as many a? a hundred ' twenty flowers opened. Miss Ooutil lanterns hung at convenient places, an 1 vited her neighbours to share with ' ie . r pleasure of witnessing the rare flowers Dl • During a single wooc there were up* , of five hundred blossoms opened. At o_r they began to open, and were in full 0 by midnight. Such are the habits 01 curious cactus. „,l,i The Border Magazine relates a some " amusing tale about the late Dr. Parker, seems to have had a great liking f° r . V, gooseberries. The doctor frequently vis the little Border town of Langholm whe, holiday, and had the run of several i' ar " about. He was fond of fruit, and the doner in oiie of the places was an "°j n;e( his eating gooseberries which were - - for the show. The Border Magazine sap- " Andra resorted to various devices < he discovered that the enemy «' as blackbird, but a preacher, to induce ■ leave the ' prize yins alane,' but in v • • last he peppered the bushes with so' » g chuckled at the thought of «iuai the divine. The doctor, however, v- . f to the occasion. All unconscious {erf of twinkling eyes upon him no ,j, e through the garden, and, coming; "P he . r conbushes, for an instant, as lie beheld j 0 dition, worked his facial eatu "!?' looped the chagrin of the gardener, co 'iked flown, turned up the branches, a the clean fruit from beneath. s i;in. FREE FROM EVERY BLEMISH A, beaatiscalp and hair, preserved, P? rl f-f cnticura. fled by Cuticura Soap. aasisteft o ".during Ointment. It removes the cause 01 We , llishe3 , eruptions, loss of hair and bab or sliiSviz.: The clogged, irritated. mJtonit t ' h?r s oap gish condition of the } ,ores • i w jth it ff r ever compounded is to be co - ji'yinc the preserving, purify in?, and , ullisep . skin, scalp, and hands, for samiu alld tic purposes, and for til© toiiei. nursery.